Booting, Warm and cold booting, Drive a/drive b – Epson QX-10 User Manual

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Booting

Booting is the term used to describe the process of loading or

transferring the operating system from the diskette into memory.

Warm and Cold Booting

A cold boot occurs when you power up the machine, or when

you push the RESET button after inserting a new system diskette

in drive A. The RESET button is located just under the door to

drive B on the front of the main unit. A warm boot, which only

partially reloads the operating system, is initiated by keystrokes

(see the instruction manual for the operating system you are using).

Drive A/Drive B

Booting, both warm and cold, is always done from drive A,

which is the one on the left. (After booting, you can choose to

use either drive.)

The part of the diskette drive visible at the front of the main

unit includes the slot where you insert diskettes, the button

labelled PUSH, and the red IN-USE light.

You’ll be working with two kinds of diskettes: system diskettes

and data diskettes. System diskettes carry the information that tells

the QX-10 how to perform specific operations-for example, the

Valdocs™ system diskette contains all of the information the

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